SOCI 1301 READING SMARTBOOK CHAPTER 13 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
What term is used to describe adult children who return to their parents' home for economic or
emotional reasons? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅boomerang kids
Family patterns - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅differ between cultures.
True or False: Sociologists refer to the family as universal because it is found in every culture. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅True
By 2016, about ______ of U.S. households consisted of a nuclear family. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅one-
third
True or false: Family patterns differ from one culture to another and even within the same culture. -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
Select all that apply
What factors might cause adult children to return to live with their parents? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Inability to find a job
Divorce
Inability to afford housing
Extended family - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A family in which relatives such as grandparents, aunts, and
uncles live in the same home as parents and their children
Monogamy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A form of marriage in which a two people are married only to each
other
, Nuclear family - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A married couple with unmarried children living at home
Polyandry - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A form of marriage in which a woman has several husbands at the
same time
Polygamy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A form of marriage in which a person has several husbands or wives
at the same time
Polygyny - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A form of marriage in which a man has several wives at the same time
Serial monogamy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Having a number of spouses in a lifetime but only one spouse
at a time
The term ___ is the substantive definition of a set of people related by blood, adoption, marriage, or
some other agreed-upon relationship who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring
for members of society. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅family
Select all that apply
Which of the following statements are true about extended families in comparison with nuclear
families? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Extended families have the advantage of forming a larger economic
unit for a family farm or business.
Extended families are better able to provide support to family members in times of crisis.
Select all that apply
Theoretically, the term family is applicable to which of the following? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A married
couple with unmarried children living at home
A man and the several women to whom he is married
A woman and the several men to whom she is married
ANSWERS
What term is used to describe adult children who return to their parents' home for economic or
emotional reasons? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅boomerang kids
Family patterns - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅differ between cultures.
True or False: Sociologists refer to the family as universal because it is found in every culture. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅True
By 2016, about ______ of U.S. households consisted of a nuclear family. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅one-
third
True or false: Family patterns differ from one culture to another and even within the same culture. -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
Select all that apply
What factors might cause adult children to return to live with their parents? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Inability to find a job
Divorce
Inability to afford housing
Extended family - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A family in which relatives such as grandparents, aunts, and
uncles live in the same home as parents and their children
Monogamy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A form of marriage in which a two people are married only to each
other
, Nuclear family - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A married couple with unmarried children living at home
Polyandry - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A form of marriage in which a woman has several husbands at the
same time
Polygamy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A form of marriage in which a person has several husbands or wives
at the same time
Polygyny - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A form of marriage in which a man has several wives at the same time
Serial monogamy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Having a number of spouses in a lifetime but only one spouse
at a time
The term ___ is the substantive definition of a set of people related by blood, adoption, marriage, or
some other agreed-upon relationship who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring
for members of society. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅family
Select all that apply
Which of the following statements are true about extended families in comparison with nuclear
families? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Extended families have the advantage of forming a larger economic
unit for a family farm or business.
Extended families are better able to provide support to family members in times of crisis.
Select all that apply
Theoretically, the term family is applicable to which of the following? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A married
couple with unmarried children living at home
A man and the several women to whom he is married
A woman and the several men to whom she is married
